Posts by Steve I 365 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2012
Is there anyone with half a brain who doesn't think the in Apple's R&D labs there's a Macbook Air with magnetic keyboard, touch screen, an ARM processor running OS X when the keyboard's attached and iOS when it isn't? Or maybe it's an iPad with attacheable keyboard?
Anyway, they've almost certainly ported OS X to ARM to see how it runs and then dropped an ARM CPU into a Mac of some sort.
It's not supposed to be 'informative' - it's someone thinking out loud, mulling over the possibilities as they see them.
It's written by someone who doesn't get upset if they're not spoon-fed 'facts', but likes think for themself and try to foresee where the future is going.
It's aimed at people who will say "Interesting; I hadn't thought of that." or "Yes, that makes sense, but perhaps you also need to consider..."
Maybe it's not for you.
Nice to see the comprehension skills of Register readers hasn't changed. As I said, their (that's "their" as in "not mine") is that you DON'T own the software and the argument that you should be allowed to replace something you don't own with something you do is still flawed, but if you can supply examples of where this is allowed then please do.
Now, I'm not sure you'll get this far as you didn't make it last time, but this isn't my opinion ( that you don't own the software) and see no moral reason why people shouldn't do exactly as they like with their phone.
"So replacing the software I don't own with software that I do own is wrong. How is that for fucked up logic." Well, is because you don't own it that you can't mess with it. Just like you can't dig up the pavement outside your house (which you don't own but are allowed to use) and replace it with nice paisley paving slabs (which you do own).
Before the torrent of down votes arrives, I'm not saying this is right, but just explaining the reasoning behind it.
That would just be cynical manipulation of figures - so I'm sure it's true.
I'm also sure that when the Politicians report an enourmous increase in crimes detected and crimes solved, they're actually included the figures from speed cameras, as each ticket is a 'crime detected' and a 'crime solved'. I know I would if getting these figures increased was my responsibility.
So if my phone was sitting on the passenger seat and it started to ring, it'd be illegal to pick it up and answer it whilst stationary in a traffic jam but perfectly legel to start rummaging around the glove box at 70 mph looking for my BT hands-free kit, find it, switch it on and then anser the call?
I'm assuming the downvoters either:
1. Own Nikon and I mentioned Canon and they are aged 11.
2. Didn't understand the post.
3. There is a "webcam vs D-SLR" war in planetry astrophotography circles that I'd never heard of, to rival "Apple vs Andoid", "Canon Vs Nikon" and "Playstation VS Xbox".
I think something like the cropped movie mode on a modern (550D onwards?) Canon D-SLR would be excellent for this. That's what I'm going to use when the skies are clear enough for shots of Jupiter (and Saturn, when it comes back. ("Comes Back!? I didn't know it had been away - boom boom!")
Nikon probably have something similar too.
Shoot for several minutes and then let Registax (the "specialist software") go through the movie file, extract the decent frames, align and stack them.
"...if you really want a Leica you're far better off getting a Panasonic. That way you get the Leica lenses (the really good bit) and the same Panasonic internals that Leica use, only without the antique design, the bulkiness and the ludicrous price.2
No - if you want a Leica rangefinder, you have to buy a Leica rangefinder. There is no Panasonic version.
Thumbs down only if you don't understand.
"Unless you convert all of your music to MP3 and burn them to CD's you will have nothing if you are not tethered to the Apple ecosystem....you must use iTunes to access and make use of that content. The Apple DRM model is strong ...purchase DRM free music and video from: amazon..."
Er, no. Fail. no DRM on iTunes music and it's freely playable outside of iTunes. Amazon movies DO have DRM.
*Can this be disabled? I don't allow my personal information on to cloud services...Facebook is the last company I want anything to do with..."
So you don't have a Facebook account - how on Earth do you think it's going to upload anything and why you might need to disable it?
..the saddos who queued in central London for a PS3 when they were launched?
How we laughed. Especially with the police warnings about what would happen with loads of people going home after midnight with £400 game consoles under their arm. (Or heading for HMV with £400 cash possibly on them).
Except Sony gave them their PS3s for free. (1st 100 or something). And a taxi home. And a (then) £2,500 42" plasma TV to play it on.
A lot of these people seem to have valid (for them) reasons for queueing, even if it's just for the laugh or experience. I doubt many of them will regret having done it.
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